Written by

Maria Puente, USA TODAY

You would think, what with Hollywood's love for all things World War II, that George Clooney's amazing-but-true Monuments Men movie, opening this week, would have been made decades ago instead of last year.

After all, it seems to have all the elements of a blockbuster: a true story, heroic characters, tragic loss, historic monuments, a treasure hunt for world-famous art, American military grit, the saving of Western civilization as we know it. ...